A week with DJ Avicii.

Alexander Weygers and his Discopter.

What happens when robots act just like humans?

There has never been a better time to commit financial crimes.

A nephew investigates his uncle’s suicide

Ten years ago, Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto’s disappeared.

Reexamining the murder of James Jordan.

A post-acquisition profile of Tumblr’s David Karp.

It was a genius piece of technology. But that didn’t mean it was a business.

Once their careers end, pro wrestlers often fall into emotional and physical disrepair. One of their own, Diamond Dallas Page, has a fix.

From Tetris to Angry Birds, an examination of “stupid games.”

How an unassuming bureaucrat outsmarted Jamie Oliver and pulled off a cafeteria miracle in one of America’s unhealthiest cities.

ShyShy Pate has been missing for 19 years, but you’ve probably never heard of her.

A profile of a young activist in Chicago who almost committed suicide on Facebook Live.

A gym entrepreneur’s side business in marijuana spins out of control.

How the Google co-founder, forced out of a leadership role in 2001, came back to run the company 10 years later.

After Devaughn Darling died during a workout with the Florida State football team, his family was awarded a payout of $2 million. That was 13 years ago. Only $200,000 has come.

A profile of Chris Rock as he makes one last attempt to jump from standup to leading man.

Every year, thousands of teenagers from one city in Nigeria risk death and endure forced labor and sex work on the long route to Europe.

“I came to Weeki Wachee to sound the mystery of the mermaid, to find danger and sex and darkness and maybe hear my own deeps echoed back.”

For years, the clients of a Colorado funeral home kept their loved ones’ cremated remains. Then the FBI called.

Dozens of convicted criminals have been hired as cops in Alaska communities. Often, they are the only applicants. In Stebbins, every cop has a criminal record, including the chief.

National developers are behind the proliferation of luxury apartments near college campuses, and they’re driving low-income students farther away.

What links an eccentric Oxford classics don, billionaire US evangelicals, and a tiny, missing fragment of an ancient manuscript?

Dutch astronomer, mathematician, and inventor Christiaan Huygens’ early work on probability paved the way for his very modern evaluation of what alien life might look like.